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spieglt / FlyingCarpet

Cross-platform AirDrop. File transfer between Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows over ad hoc WiFi. No network infrastructure required, just two devices with WiFi chips in close range.
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[Feature Request] Android 5ghz hostpot option #62

Open Rihcus opened 5 months ago

Rihcus commented 5 months ago

I noticed flying carpet seems to be relying on a 2.4Ghz hotspot limiting transfers speeds. Could their be an option to use 5ghz?

spieglt commented 5 months ago

Related to this and the other issue you opened, I found this which can apparently be used to set the SSID and frequency. I'll look into it.

jackuars7 commented 5 months ago

I also noticed that the file transfer speeds are slower compared to Feem. I was wondering if FlyingCarpet uses DirectWiFi like Feem does. Also, I kindly request to look into the 5GHz option.

spieglt commented 5 months ago

Is Feem faster when devices are using a hotspot, and not on a WiFi network together? Flying Carpet technically uses WiFi Direct on Windows, though uses it to act as a legacy AP/ad hoc WiFi hotspot. I adapted https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/microsoft/windows-classic-samples/wifi-direct-legacy/ to Rust. It can't use WiFi Direct for all transfers because iOS and macOS don't have WiFi Direct. I did look at that 5Ghz code sample again but it only works on Android 13+. Not sure if or when I'll get to it, but would probably be in a future major version, maybe alongside Bluetooth functionality.